Progressively gaining the ability to jump higher and run faster is especially fun when you can storm a heavily fortified base and b-line directly to kick the head boss off a building that used to seem impossible. HOWEVER, that's not enough to save this from being an overall tedious experience. If you've played a sandbox game with cheats you've played a better version of this, simply slapping a cel shader on everything doesn't hide how bland this world and characters are. The limited arsenal also feels like a missed opportunity. This only started being fun literally at the very end when I was all powered up, meanwhile most of the game is spent trying to find a way onto a building and looking for orbs to hopefully make the game more fun.

Like a lot of people, the destruction physics in the demo for this game blew my mind at the time. Playing the main game now... just awful. The driving is some of the worst I've ever played, the combat mechanics are so weak, the level design is repetitive and bland, not even going to comment on the story or characters because those are basically non existent. I wonder if this was meant as a purely multiplayer experience because every aspect of the main game feels like an afterthought. I don't even think every game designed around multiplayer NEEDS a single player campaign because they usually end up feeling like this, why did they even bother? Did anyone like the campaign? It's really sad that those super rough early Call of Duty games have more personality and a sense of epic war scale than this which has more tools to work with. Really a miserable experience, I'll be playing the sequel just to see if they improved anything or at the very least learned to rip off the much better shooters. Fuck this game for wasting my weekend.